Out-of-bounds read in QEMU - CVE-2020-13791

 

Out-of-bounds read in QEMU - CVE-2020-13791

Published: July 24, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31807
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13791
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in hw/pci/pci.c. A local user on the guest operating system can trigger out-of-bounds read error by providing an address near the end of the PCI configuration space and read contents of memory on the system.


Affected software

QEMU
Gentoo Linux
openEuler
qemu-block-iscsi
qemu-debuginfo
qemu-block-rbd
qemu-debugsource
qemu-block-curl
qemu-guest-agent
qemu-img
qemu-block-ssh
qemu-help
qemu-seabios
qemu

How to mitigate CVE-2020-13791

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

qemu-block-iscsi - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-debuginfo - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-block-rbd - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-debugsource - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-block-curl - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-guest-agent - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-img - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-block-ssh - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-help - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu-seabios - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80
qemu - addressed in versions 4.1.0-76, 4.1.0-80

External References

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